CARDIS 2021 is over. All pre-recordings and the recordings of the live sessions are now available on the CARDIS YouTube Channel.

CARDIS 2021 was accompanied by the Fall School on Nano-Electronics for Secure Systems (NESSY). NESSY is aimed at PhD students, postdocs and interested individuals and is supposed to offer the opportunity for networking, discussions, and collaboration. CARDIS 2021 and NESSY shared an invited talk.

Call for Papers

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Scope

CARDIS has been the venue for security experts from industry and academia to exchange on security of smart cards and related applications since 1994. Smart cards play an increasingly important role in our day-to-day life through their use in banking cards, SIM cards, electronic passports, and IoT devices. It is thus naturally of utmost importance to understand their security features and to develop sound protocols and countermeasures while keeping reasonable performance. In this respect, CARDIS aims to gather security experts from industry, academia, and standardization bodies to make steps forward in the field of embedded security.

The 20th edition of CARDIS is organized by the Institute for IT Security of the Universität zu Lübeck, Germany. The conference website is accessible at https://cardis2021.its.uni-luebeck.de

Topics

The program committee is seeking original papers on the design, development, deployment, evaluation, penetration testing and application of smart cards and secure embedded systems. Submissions across a broad range of the development phase are encouraged, from exploratory research and proof-of-concept studies to practical applications and deployment.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Security and applications of:
• Smart cards: identification, access control, pay TV
• IoT devices: automotive, medical, mobile payment, mobile connected devices
• Trusted computing: mobile TPM, Trusted Execution Environments
• Embedded systems: operating systems, memory, virtual machines
• Cryptographic implementations of:
• Lightweight cryptographic algorithms
• Post-quantum cryptographic algorithms
• Random number generators, PUFs
• White-box cryptography
• Attacks and countermeasures:
• Side-channel (timing, power, cache) attacks and countermeasures
• Fault and combined attacks and countermeasures
• Reverse engineering, (anti-)cloning, (anti-)tempering, (anti-)counterfeiting
• Tools:
• Automated analysis
• Formal verification and secure design
• Machine learning analysis

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format using the submission form available on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cardis2021. Submissions must be original, unpublished, anonymous and not submitted to journals or other conferences with proceedings. Submissions must be written in English and should be at most 20 pages in total (including references and appendices). Papers not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration. All submissions will be blind-refereed. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Both submissions and accepted papers must follow the LNCS default author instructions accessible on the Springer webpage: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines .

Important Dates

All deadlines are 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

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